 Simple morning activities for preschoolers is a great way to provide children with a soft start to the day. Children can pick and choose which morning activities they would like to work on during morning arrival as they wait for their classmates to arrive. What activities should be placed out for morning arrival? Create a simple routine for children to move freely through certain tables and areas in the classroom. Think of providing children with activities that are engaging but simple for them to clean up. Morning activities for preschoolers need to be calm, engaging activities as they wait.
Grab FREEBIES for your morning work time.  Lego Activities for Preschoolers During morning activities simple Lego challenges are perfect for the morning activities drawers. Keep the activities fresh by changing out the challenges as children build their skills.  Pattern Block Activities for Preschoolers Like the Legos pattern blocks are another way to provide simple pattern block challenges that fit perfectly in the morning activities drawers.  Cutting Skills for Preschoolers Preschool teachers are always looking for simple ways to build children cutting skills, by providing different activities in the morning activities drawers your preschoolers will develop into expert cutters.  Color Dice Games for Preschoolers All preschoolers love rolling dice, so the morning activities trays are the perfect way for children to develop color matching and sorting skills. You can scaffold children's learning by adding a color dot dice for color recognition and counting skills.  Hole Punch Activities for Preschoolers Children love using adult tools and hole punch falls into that category. Provide children with different types of hole punch activities during your morning activities and they will be building their hand strength and finger control.  Magnetic Letters Activities for Preschoolers Using magnetic letters in your morning activities will help children to begin to recognize and identify the letter shapes. This will build alphabet fluency later on for future reading success.  How to organize morning activities? The 10-drawer rolling cart is the perfect storage for morning activities for preschoolers, everything needed for each activity can be found in each individual drawer. Children are able to freely pick morning activities and cleanup is a snap. 
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 Children love to put their marks on the world by scribbling and drawing. That is why we start everyday with morning journal time, it is our favorite morning activity to get the day started. As children come in for the day it gives us an opportunity to have quality conversations with each child as they work on their daily writing prompt. When thinking of starting a routine of journal prompts for preschoolers it needs to be easy to set up daily with little prep. Teachers are busy and we don’t need one more thing that takes a lot of time. We have enough of those already.  The simplest and neatest way I have found to setting up preschool journals for preschoolers is by using file folders with fasteners. Setting up the original preschool journals will take a little time, but after that children will be able to do the daily prep all by themselves and it’s so worth it.
How do you write a daily journal for a preschooler? We like to start with journal prompt sheets that are designed to actively engage children in the writing process to build their fine motor skills that will result in the progression of the penmanship skills. Here are some journal prompt ideas   Have you ever used sticky notes all over your paper planner to mark important notes? Trello labels for lesson planning for teachers is the digital sticky note for your planner, but BETTER! Labels are a cool feature that you can add to your planning cards to differentiate between them. Labels are a way to provide a pop of color, structure, and clarity to your digital teacher planner. Trello labels for planning board are a way to label and categorize your plans by subjects. To give you needed information at a glance.  How to add Labels to Your Lesson Plans Click on a card and go to labels. You can see that there are a variety of colors to choose from for your labels. You can use them for subjects and important dates.  Click on the little pencil to the right of the color label to name each color label.  Add more than one label to a planning card.  Another great feature to labeling your Trello lesson planning is that you can add cards to your calendar so that you can see what planned for the month at a glance.  Do you put up a birthday board with all of your kiddo's birthdays on it, but you still forget?  You can include a child's birthday board on your planner and create cards for each child and add child's birthday to the calendar. Now you will never miss a child's birthday again.  Okay so that is all the details I have on Trello labels for lesson planning for teachers. I hope you found it helpful. Be sure to check out the Trello for Teachers line of planning boards so that you can get organized and ready to plan out those school days.   |
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